Free Panel - "Create Your Own Opportunities"
Create Your Own Opportunities,
how to write and produce your own shows.
Whether you want to start writing/producing your own work or just curious but too overwhelmed to know where to begin, this panel is a great place to start! You’ll have the opportunity to get all of your questions answered by the best authorities on the subject. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity!!
Panel to follow 7pm performance of OUTROVERTED on Thursday July 26th
For ticket info visit:
www.outroverted.com or www.smarttix.com
Show @ 7:00pm Jewel Box Theatre, 312 W 36th St, 4th floor
Panel @ 9:15pm Where Eagles Dare Theatre, 347 W 36th St, studio Blackbird
FREE ADMISSION to the Panel with ticket stub from one of the following MITF shows:
OUTROVERTED, A LINE IN THE SAND, or CAT-HER-IN-E
Featuring Panelists…
Matt Hoverman
Writing and Solo Show Coach. Founder of “Create Your Own Solo Show” workshop
Cheryl King
Acting, writing and Solo Show Coach. Artistic Director of Stage Left Studios, the only solo show repertory in NYC, and Solo Voce: Estrogenius at Manhattan Theatre Source
Padraic Lillis
Solo show Director and Playwright. Currently directing “A Line in the Sand” at this year’s Midtown International Theatre Festival
Bob Ost
President and Co-founder of Theater Resources Unlimited, a company dedicated to providing information and a variety of entertainment-related services and resources that strengthen the capacity of producing organizations, individuals producers, self-producing artists and other theater professionals
Brian Bielawski
Actor/Producer/Writer. Currently producing his solo show “/out of Character as part of “Outroverted” at MITF and producing his solo show “Gamers” at the NY Fringe Festival
Amy Staats
Actor/Producer/Writer. Currently producing her one woman show “Cat-her-in-e” at this year’s Midtown International Theatre Festival
Adina Taubman
Actor/Producer/Writer. Currently producing her one woman show “A Line in the Sand” at this year’s Midtown International Theatre Festival.
Bios:
Matt Hoverman is an award-winning playwright, actor, director and teacher. His play IN TRANSIT won the 2006 FringeNYC Award for Best Playwriting and he co-wrote THE AUDIENCE, which was nominated for 3 Drama Desk Awards (including Best New Musical). Acting credits include Yale Rep, The Acting Company, La Jolla Playhouse, As The World Turns, Conan O’Brien, commercials and many voices on cartoons and video games such as Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Silent Hill 4. Since 2001, through his popular “Create Your Own Solo Show” Workshops, Matt has midwived and directed dozens of solo shows, which have gone on to win awards, great acclaim (and representation!) all over NYC and beyond, at such venues as Ars Nova, HBO, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the MITF, and the last 3 New York Int’l Fringe Festivals (including 2005 FringeNYC Best Solo Show Award winner BRIDEZILLA STRIKES BACK, by Cynthia Silver.) www.CreateYourOwnSoloShow.com
Cheryl King is the director of her own theatre, Stage Left Studio, the only solo show repertory in NYC. She is Artistic Director of Sola Voce:Estrogenius at ManhattanTheatreSource, and co-artistic director of the Midtown International Theatre Festival. She formed her own production company, Cheryl King Productions, in 2000, and has produced several acting retreats, over 300 showcases, and three years of V-Day events. She is resident acting coach for All My Children, ABC’s Emmy-winning drama series. She teaches two weekly writing workshops, and has written a book about her technique called “Writing Your Heart Out.” She is a contributing writer to Glenn Alterman’s “Creating Your Own Monologue” and Soul of the American Actor. Her innovative Body Language workshop has been a big success since 1998 and she recently served as an expert consultant for a body language feature in WWD, the magazine. Her internationally acclaimed solo show, not a nice girl, has had runs Off-Broadway in NYC, in Los Angeles and Ft. Collins, CO. Her television credits include ABC's 20/20, Oprah! and Faking It, on TLC. Ms. King is an advisory board member of ARIA and a member of the Dramatists Guild. In addition to private coaching in acting and writing, she directs the solo shows of Cyndi Freeman, Beth Bongar, Michelle Ramoni, Susan Little, Karen Thibodeau and Erica Herd. Info: www.cherylkingproductions.com.
Padraic Lillis is a theater director, writer, teacher, and a consultant for non-profit organizations. In the past year he directed the sold out run of THE DIRTY TALK for Spare Change Productions at Center Stage, New York, Matt Hoverman’s IN TRANSIT, which was awarded best play for the New York International Fringe Festival, Edith Freni’s BABY GIRL for Partial Comfort Production, A LINE IN THE SAND, Adina Taubman’s docudrama based on the school shootings at Columbine at Foothills Theater in Nevada City, CA, which will be part of the 2007 Midtown International Theater Festival opening July 20th. His plays TWO THIRDS HOME is premiering at Broken Watch Theater in New York this July, and RONNIE’S MASK is currently running in Chicago at the Steppenwolf Performance Garage as part of Collaboraction’s Sketchbook 7, and LAKE EFFECT was a semi-finalist in this year’s Sam French Short Play Festival. Other writing credits include additional material for Cindy Keiter’s one woman show RECREATING KEITER: I Saw Dad Make the Whole Thing Up, which he is also the director. BROADWAY ’98 a musical review he was commissioned to write for the Academy Theater in Orleans, MA. And ORENTHAL - an adaptation of Othello to the O.J. Simpson trial, developed and produced by the Director’s Company. In New York he has directed with Manhattan Theater Club, The Roundabout, New York Theater Workshop, The Pearl, The Lark, Young Playwrights Festival and the Labyrinth Theater. Regionally he has worked with The McCarter Theater, Portland Stage Company, The Dallas Theater Center, and the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis. He has also directed the National Tour of SHE LOVES ME.
Bob Ost is the Marketing Director for MITF, President and Co-founder of Theater Resources Unlimited, a frequently produced playwright, an occasional producer, a published song writer and an advertising executive with over twenty years experience on both the creative and account sides of advertising. As a playwright/composer/lyricist, Bob won two national competitions for his musical Finale!, and was a finalist at the O’Neill Music Conference in 1989. His dramas The Necessary Disposal and Breeders have been finalists in five different national competitions; The Body Shop came in second in the ‘96 Turnip Festival 15-minute Play Competition, and a musical version of that play (written with Gary Hughes and Claudia Perry) was the Christmas ‘97 presentation at Westside Repertory Theatre. His one-acts have been showcased all over Manhattan; he wrote the off-Broadway revue Everybody’s Gettin’ into the Act, and both wrote and co-produced four other revues that played the Manhattan cabaret circuit, including the 2004 MAC-nominated Not Quite What You Expected. He won a 2004 OOBR Award for the revue Songs Are Like Friends. His CDs A Special Place: Songs from the Heart (Original Cast Records) and Everybody’s Gettin’ into the Act (Fynsworth Alley) feature dozens of Broadway stars. Bob has built a substantial career in advertising. He spent over ten years as a retail copywriter, and first combined his advertising and theater skills as a copywriter for Attisano Levine, a former agency specializing in theater and media accounts; and more recently worked both freelance and on staff for the theatrical ad agency The Eliran Murphy Group. In 1986 he became Copy Director for the Prestige Fragrance division of Revlon, where he was instrumental in the American introductions of several European fragrances. He left to become Creative Director for Stern & Levine, a small ad agency specializing in fashion and fragrance accounts. From 1990 to 1994, Bob formed and ran his own advertising agency, Athey Levine & Ost Creative Consultants, specializing in TV, video and other non-theatrical entertainment accounts. He was a Cover Girl website writer and developer for Grey Interactive Advertising, and has freelanced for various website accounts, including Avon and Naturistics Cosmetics.
Brian Bielawski has been producing and performing his one-man show /out of character across the country since its conception as his graduate thesis project in 2005. He is currently co-producing his new solo-show Gamers in the New York International Fringe Festival. Acting credits: OFF-BROADWAY: The American Pilot directed by Lynne Meadow (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Rules of Charity (Theatre By the Blind). REGIONAL: As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Winter’s Tale, Two Noble Kinsmen, Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, and Macbeth directed by Darko Tresnjak, Patricia Conolly, and Paul Mullens (The Old Globe Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noises Off! (Brownville Village Theatre); Mame, Light Up the Sky, Little Foxes (The Summer Place). SHORT FILM: Felix Culpa (Progress 22 Films). TELEVISION: Guiding Light (recurring). EDUCATION: MFA (The Old Globe/University of San Diego); BFA (The University of Evansville).
Amy Staats most recently played the lead in Amy Fox's critically acclaimed One Thing I Like To Say Is...as part of Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks at The Ohio Theatre. A member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre, she has originated rolls by such playwrights as Edward Allen Baker, Susan Kim, Amy Fox, and Lloyd Suh.
Other New York credits include Hell House (Les Freres Corbusier; Drama Desk nom.) Graceful Living (NYC Fringe Festival) Night Visits (Circle East; Heideman Winner NY Premiere) Blame it on the Bossanova (Rattlestick) Gender / Bender /Neutered / Straight (The Lark) Richard Willet’s The Flid Show (New Directions) and Last Resorts (New Georges). Film: Its Cheapah to Kippah (J.I.F. Outerborough Ent.) and Sweetie Cool Time (Sonray Films) Feedback (Sirk Prod.)Regional: Women and the Sea (Portland Stage Company; World Premiere) The Grapes of Wrath (Fulton Opera House). Amy has participated in numerous workshops and readings at MCC, Playwright’s Horizons, New Dramatists, The New Group, and The Ensemble Studio Theatre among others. As a writer she is the recipient of a New Voices Fellowship and is being published this year in Applause Book's Best American Short Plays. Her work has been produced and work shopped at The Ensemble Studio Theatre, and she has had readings at The New
Group and EST.
Adina Taubman most recently performed a new version of her play, A Line in the Sand, about the Columbine High School shootings, in a workshop at Foothill Theatre Company in Nevada City, CA. She has performed earlier versions of the play at both the New York International Fringe Festival (2001) and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2003). For her first play, Tell Me About Adina, based on the life of her grandmother after whom she was named, she was nominated for a Bay Area Theater Critics Circle award for Best Solo Performance. Adina toured with TheatreWorksUSA playing the role of Aunt Willie in Summer of the Swans. She is a co-founder of Atolas Theatre Company in New York City. For their inaugural production, Little Egypt, she played the role of Bernadette. Adina's other New York credits include: Mary in The Blow Up, part of the Estrogenius 2002 Festival at Manhattan Theatre Source, and various roles at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, and The Gallery Players. She received her MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and performed in the Bay Area at Center Rep as Jessica in The Merchant of Venice and at Shakespeare at the Beach as Phebe in As You Like It, among other theaters.
how to write and produce your own shows.
Whether you want to start writing/producing your own work or just curious but too overwhelmed to know where to begin, this panel is a great place to start! You’ll have the opportunity to get all of your questions answered by the best authorities on the subject. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity!!
Panel to follow 7pm performance of OUTROVERTED on Thursday July 26th
For ticket info visit:
www.outroverted.com or www.smarttix.com
Show @ 7:00pm Jewel Box Theatre, 312 W 36th St, 4th floor
Panel @ 9:15pm Where Eagles Dare Theatre, 347 W 36th St, studio Blackbird
FREE ADMISSION to the Panel with ticket stub from one of the following MITF shows:
OUTROVERTED, A LINE IN THE SAND, or CAT-HER-IN-E
Featuring Panelists…
Matt Hoverman
Writing and Solo Show Coach. Founder of “Create Your Own Solo Show” workshop
Cheryl King
Acting, writing and Solo Show Coach. Artistic Director of Stage Left Studios, the only solo show repertory in NYC, and Solo Voce: Estrogenius at Manhattan Theatre Source
Padraic Lillis
Solo show Director and Playwright. Currently directing “A Line in the Sand” at this year’s Midtown International Theatre Festival
Bob Ost
President and Co-founder of Theater Resources Unlimited, a company dedicated to providing information and a variety of entertainment-related services and resources that strengthen the capacity of producing organizations, individuals producers, self-producing artists and other theater professionals
Brian Bielawski
Actor/Producer/Writer. Currently producing his solo show “/out of Character as part of “Outroverted” at MITF and producing his solo show “Gamers” at the NY Fringe Festival
Amy Staats
Actor/Producer/Writer. Currently producing her one woman show “Cat-her-in-e” at this year’s Midtown International Theatre Festival
Adina Taubman
Actor/Producer/Writer. Currently producing her one woman show “A Line in the Sand” at this year’s Midtown International Theatre Festival.
Bios:
Matt Hoverman is an award-winning playwright, actor, director and teacher. His play IN TRANSIT won the 2006 FringeNYC Award for Best Playwriting and he co-wrote THE AUDIENCE, which was nominated for 3 Drama Desk Awards (including Best New Musical). Acting credits include Yale Rep, The Acting Company, La Jolla Playhouse, As The World Turns, Conan O’Brien, commercials and many voices on cartoons and video games such as Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Silent Hill 4. Since 2001, through his popular “Create Your Own Solo Show” Workshops, Matt has midwived and directed dozens of solo shows, which have gone on to win awards, great acclaim (and representation!) all over NYC and beyond, at such venues as Ars Nova, HBO, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the MITF, and the last 3 New York Int’l Fringe Festivals (including 2005 FringeNYC Best Solo Show Award winner BRIDEZILLA STRIKES BACK, by Cynthia Silver.) www.CreateYourOwnSoloShow.com
Cheryl King is the director of her own theatre, Stage Left Studio, the only solo show repertory in NYC. She is Artistic Director of Sola Voce:Estrogenius at ManhattanTheatreSource, and co-artistic director of the Midtown International Theatre Festival. She formed her own production company, Cheryl King Productions, in 2000, and has produced several acting retreats, over 300 showcases, and three years of V-Day events. She is resident acting coach for All My Children, ABC’s Emmy-winning drama series. She teaches two weekly writing workshops, and has written a book about her technique called “Writing Your Heart Out.” She is a contributing writer to Glenn Alterman’s “Creating Your Own Monologue” and Soul of the American Actor. Her innovative Body Language workshop has been a big success since 1998 and she recently served as an expert consultant for a body language feature in WWD, the magazine. Her internationally acclaimed solo show, not a nice girl, has had runs Off-Broadway in NYC, in Los Angeles and Ft. Collins, CO. Her television credits include ABC's 20/20, Oprah! and Faking It, on TLC. Ms. King is an advisory board member of ARIA and a member of the Dramatists Guild. In addition to private coaching in acting and writing, she directs the solo shows of Cyndi Freeman, Beth Bongar, Michelle Ramoni, Susan Little, Karen Thibodeau and Erica Herd. Info: www.cherylkingproductions.com.
Padraic Lillis is a theater director, writer, teacher, and a consultant for non-profit organizations. In the past year he directed the sold out run of THE DIRTY TALK for Spare Change Productions at Center Stage, New York, Matt Hoverman’s IN TRANSIT, which was awarded best play for the New York International Fringe Festival, Edith Freni’s BABY GIRL for Partial Comfort Production, A LINE IN THE SAND, Adina Taubman’s docudrama based on the school shootings at Columbine at Foothills Theater in Nevada City, CA, which will be part of the 2007 Midtown International Theater Festival opening July 20th. His plays TWO THIRDS HOME is premiering at Broken Watch Theater in New York this July, and RONNIE’S MASK is currently running in Chicago at the Steppenwolf Performance Garage as part of Collaboraction’s Sketchbook 7, and LAKE EFFECT was a semi-finalist in this year’s Sam French Short Play Festival. Other writing credits include additional material for Cindy Keiter’s one woman show RECREATING KEITER: I Saw Dad Make the Whole Thing Up, which he is also the director. BROADWAY ’98 a musical review he was commissioned to write for the Academy Theater in Orleans, MA. And ORENTHAL - an adaptation of Othello to the O.J. Simpson trial, developed and produced by the Director’s Company. In New York he has directed with Manhattan Theater Club, The Roundabout, New York Theater Workshop, The Pearl, The Lark, Young Playwrights Festival and the Labyrinth Theater. Regionally he has worked with The McCarter Theater, Portland Stage Company, The Dallas Theater Center, and the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis. He has also directed the National Tour of SHE LOVES ME.
Bob Ost is the Marketing Director for MITF, President and Co-founder of Theater Resources Unlimited, a frequently produced playwright, an occasional producer, a published song writer and an advertising executive with over twenty years experience on both the creative and account sides of advertising. As a playwright/composer/lyricist, Bob won two national competitions for his musical Finale!, and was a finalist at the O’Neill Music Conference in 1989. His dramas The Necessary Disposal and Breeders have been finalists in five different national competitions; The Body Shop came in second in the ‘96 Turnip Festival 15-minute Play Competition, and a musical version of that play (written with Gary Hughes and Claudia Perry) was the Christmas ‘97 presentation at Westside Repertory Theatre. His one-acts have been showcased all over Manhattan; he wrote the off-Broadway revue Everybody’s Gettin’ into the Act, and both wrote and co-produced four other revues that played the Manhattan cabaret circuit, including the 2004 MAC-nominated Not Quite What You Expected. He won a 2004 OOBR Award for the revue Songs Are Like Friends. His CDs A Special Place: Songs from the Heart (Original Cast Records) and Everybody’s Gettin’ into the Act (Fynsworth Alley) feature dozens of Broadway stars. Bob has built a substantial career in advertising. He spent over ten years as a retail copywriter, and first combined his advertising and theater skills as a copywriter for Attisano Levine, a former agency specializing in theater and media accounts; and more recently worked both freelance and on staff for the theatrical ad agency The Eliran Murphy Group. In 1986 he became Copy Director for the Prestige Fragrance division of Revlon, where he was instrumental in the American introductions of several European fragrances. He left to become Creative Director for Stern & Levine, a small ad agency specializing in fashion and fragrance accounts. From 1990 to 1994, Bob formed and ran his own advertising agency, Athey Levine & Ost Creative Consultants, specializing in TV, video and other non-theatrical entertainment accounts. He was a Cover Girl website writer and developer for Grey Interactive Advertising, and has freelanced for various website accounts, including Avon and Naturistics Cosmetics.
Brian Bielawski has been producing and performing his one-man show /out of character across the country since its conception as his graduate thesis project in 2005. He is currently co-producing his new solo-show Gamers in the New York International Fringe Festival. Acting credits: OFF-BROADWAY: The American Pilot directed by Lynne Meadow (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Rules of Charity (Theatre By the Blind). REGIONAL: As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Winter’s Tale, Two Noble Kinsmen, Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, and Macbeth directed by Darko Tresnjak, Patricia Conolly, and Paul Mullens (The Old Globe Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noises Off! (Brownville Village Theatre); Mame, Light Up the Sky, Little Foxes (The Summer Place). SHORT FILM: Felix Culpa (Progress 22 Films). TELEVISION: Guiding Light (recurring). EDUCATION: MFA (The Old Globe/University of San Diego); BFA (The University of Evansville).
Amy Staats most recently played the lead in Amy Fox's critically acclaimed One Thing I Like To Say Is...as part of Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks at The Ohio Theatre. A member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre, she has originated rolls by such playwrights as Edward Allen Baker, Susan Kim, Amy Fox, and Lloyd Suh.
Other New York credits include Hell House (Les Freres Corbusier; Drama Desk nom.) Graceful Living (NYC Fringe Festival) Night Visits (Circle East; Heideman Winner NY Premiere) Blame it on the Bossanova (Rattlestick) Gender / Bender /Neutered / Straight (The Lark) Richard Willet’s The Flid Show (New Directions) and Last Resorts (New Georges). Film: Its Cheapah to Kippah (J.I.F. Outerborough Ent.) and Sweetie Cool Time (Sonray Films) Feedback (Sirk Prod.)Regional: Women and the Sea (Portland Stage Company; World Premiere) The Grapes of Wrath (Fulton Opera House). Amy has participated in numerous workshops and readings at MCC, Playwright’s Horizons, New Dramatists, The New Group, and The Ensemble Studio Theatre among others. As a writer she is the recipient of a New Voices Fellowship and is being published this year in Applause Book's Best American Short Plays. Her work has been produced and work shopped at The Ensemble Studio Theatre, and she has had readings at The New
Group and EST.
Adina Taubman most recently performed a new version of her play, A Line in the Sand, about the Columbine High School shootings, in a workshop at Foothill Theatre Company in Nevada City, CA. She has performed earlier versions of the play at both the New York International Fringe Festival (2001) and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2003). For her first play, Tell Me About Adina, based on the life of her grandmother after whom she was named, she was nominated for a Bay Area Theater Critics Circle award for Best Solo Performance. Adina toured with TheatreWorksUSA playing the role of Aunt Willie in Summer of the Swans. She is a co-founder of Atolas Theatre Company in New York City. For their inaugural production, Little Egypt, she played the role of Bernadette. Adina's other New York credits include: Mary in The Blow Up, part of the Estrogenius 2002 Festival at Manhattan Theatre Source, and various roles at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, and The Gallery Players. She received her MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and performed in the Bay Area at Center Rep as Jessica in The Merchant of Venice and at Shakespeare at the Beach as Phebe in As You Like It, among other theaters.